Publications

Understanding the role of street medicine in harm reduction: a case study of Street Medicine St. Louis.

Homelessness results from, and exacerbates, various social determinants of health, including poverty, racism, and inadequate healthcare access, which are further compounded by physical and mental health challenges. The street medicine movement seeks to address these disparities by providing direct medical care and harm reduction services to unsheltered homeless in low-barrier settings. The development of trust is critical to providing this form of care. Few studies have sought to understand the factors influencing trust development in street medicine encounters.

Harm reduction journal

Examining the association of sociodemographic characteristics on self-reported changes in health-related behaviors, mental health, and quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.

The challenges faced during COVID-19 for the public health were unprecedent in the last 100 years. The necessity to adapt lifestyles during this period highlighted inequalities in health-related behaviors, quality of life and mental health of the population, especially in unequal countries like Brazil.

BMC public health

Walk the Vote: Why Democracy Is Important for Promoting Physical Activity Worldwide.

Journal of physical activity & health

The pediatric clinician's assessment of school readiness for children with sickle cell disease: applying the American Society of Hematology and American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines

Children with sickle cell disease face a significantly elevated risk of developmental delays and cognitive impairments, necessitating early and regular developmental screening and timely interventions to address developmental delays and ensure school readiness.

Pediatric Clinics of North America

Walk the Vote: Why Democracy Is Important for Promoting Physical Activity Worldwide

Democratic governance enables sustained promotion of physical activity. Democracies are better positioned to ring-fence prevention budgets, institutionalize intersectoral coordination, protect open data and surveillance, and mobilize communities — conditions that the World Health Organization and the International Society for Physical Activity and Health identify as essential for population-wide improvements in physical activity.

Journal of Physical Activity and Health

Using gnotobiotic mice to decipher effects of gut microbiome repair in undernourished children on tuft and goblet cell function

Recent clinical trials of a food designed to repair the perturbed gut microbiomes of undernourished children produced superior growth outcomes versus a standard nutritional supplement. We colonized gnotobiotic mice with microbiome samples obtained from trial participants before and after treatment. This reverse translation provides mechanistic insights that can inform future research.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

No evidence of MMR induced trained immunity to prevent SARS COV2: results from a multi-centre RCT.

Measles-containing vaccines (MCV), by training innate immune cells, are hypothesized to prevent severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Frontiers in immunology

Using implementation mapping to optimize the impact of Universal School meals: a type III hybrid implementation-effectiveness study protocol.

Provision of government subsidized school meals at no charge to all students in income-eligible schools (Universal School Meals) is a critical policy approach to address food insecurity and risk for obesity in school-aged children. However, despite documented benefits, implementation challenges remain, which limit the uptake and associated impact of this provision. To ensure the longevity of this policy approach, equity-focused solutions that center the needs of those tasked with implementation and the most vulnerable Universal School Meals recipients are necessary. The aims of this study are to develop equity-focused implementation strategies and test them through a hybrid type III cluster-randomized trial to examine potential effectiveness on improving student uptake and implementation across the school system.

Implementation science communications

LIFE-Moms: effects of multicomponent lifestyle randomized control trial on physical activity during pregnancy in women with overweight and obesity.

This report details the effect of LIFE-Mom's multicomponent lifestyle interventions on physical activity (PA) and inactivity time across pregnancy (2nd and 3rd trimesters) and their effect on gestational weight gain (GWG) and maternal/neonatal outcomes, a pre-specified secondary analysis.

The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity